pintado

[ pin-tah-doh ]

/ pɪnˈtɑ doʊ /

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Also pin·ta·da

[pin-tah-duh]. /pɪnˈtɑ də/.

1595–1605; <Portuguese, past participle of pintar to paint <Vulgar Latin *pinctus painted. See pinta

The ship was now surrounded by albatrosses, penguins, and pintado birds.
Dick Cheveley|W. H. G. Kingston
The wall of the Pueblo Pintado was found by excavation to extend at least two feet below the surface of the ground.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume IV|Hubert Howe Bancroft
The Pueblo Pintado is built on a knoll twenty or thirty feet high, about three hundred yards from the river.
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume IV|Hubert Howe Bancroft
Many hundreds of the white-rumped mhorr browsed on it undisturbed, and the pintado and the partridge seemed to be without end.
The Highlands of Ethiopia|William Cornwallis Harris

From the middle downward they wear a pintado of silk, trailing upon the ground, in colour as they best like.
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World|Francis Pretty